On Tuesday 23 of December 2014 09:51:55 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Werner Joss wrote: > > Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 15:58:33 schrieb Felmon Davis: > >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Werner Joss wrote: > >>> Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 11:21:26 schrieb Alexandre: > >>>> Can you post a screenshot of you searching for the keyword powersave > >>>> in Synaptic. It is very very unlikely that it is not there. > >>> > >>> well, problem solved :) > >>> it turned out that > >>> - my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.list file (which kept the entries > >>> for trinity) had vanished during my initial several 'dist-upgrades' > >>> (forced by errors) > >>> - once fixed, aptitude found tdepowersave, which would > >>> uninstall/replace kpowersave upon installation > >>> > >>> after next reboot, tdepowersave starts automatically and works as > >>> expected. > >>> thanks for your help. > >> > >> glad you got yours figured out. not so lucky here. > >> > >> trying to install the new release practically killed my system. I > >> wrestled it back to near health though there are still issues, > >> including the kpowersave issue. I didn't have tdepowersave in > >> apt-cache. > > > > that was here only with vanished sources.list entrys for trinity. > > not sure what you mean by 'vanished'. in the end though I'm supposing > something was wrong with the sources.list I used. maybe I'll hook up > that hard-drive and have another look. > > I'm a bit spoiled by the pleasant speed of the ssd card on this laptop > so I doubt I'll put the old hard-drive back into actual use. > > (got to research the 'trim' issues.) > > >> I took the hard-drive out and put in a new virgin one, did a new > >> install but for carrying over home. that has the tdepowersave app but > >> it is misbehaving: it shuts down the system no matter what I put in > >> the configuration menu. (or maybe something else does...?) > > > > I suppose, it must be something else. > > slowly I think so too and in fact I'm suspecting I made an error > somewhere. > > >> guess this is an advance since the other version either didn't have a > >> config menu or only had one after manually loading hald. even then I > >> wasn't sure it was doing anything. > > > > does it at least show the battery status ? > > (it should, of course). > > Werner > > I'll tell you when I boot up that drive again. > > Mike Bird downthread gave some intriguing advice; I'll prob try that > too. > > F. > Regarding losses apt sources I have one idea - previously was one package trinity-keyring, which contained both GPG key and APT sources list. Now are two separate packages trinity-keyring and trinity-apt-archive. If your apt sources previously came from package trinity-keyring, after upgrade this package apt sources list would disappear. -- Slávek